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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
Loved
Hurt
Left
Thought
Thing
Always
Love
Smashed
Deeper

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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.
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